Out of battery

A modern horror story. The phone with a flat battery is also a metaphor.

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  Panel 1

  NARRATOR: Back in the dark library

  The whole panel is an empty battery, as would be shown on a phone with no battery charge, as well as a power plug icon and an electricity icon.

  Panel 2

  In the blackness, Awakeman looks at the phone in their hand.

  PHONE: Boop-boop-boop

  The phone screen turns off.

  Panel 3

  AWAKEMAN (thinking): I don’t know if I should be happy or sad.

  Awakeman starts slumping against a wall.

  AWAKEMAN (aloud): I guess I am neither.

  Awakeman sits low in the darkness, on the left. On the right there is a small duck.

  DUCKY: Quack